Budos Band: Le Poisson Rouge Thursday Feb. 26
March 16: The Ting Tings w/ Hot Tub at Terminal Five
March 18: Naughty By Nature at South Paw
April 17-19: Coachella
April 21: Ratatat at Terminal Five
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Daptone Records Robbed
On president's day someone broke into Daptone Records in Bushwick and stole a bunch of stuff. Here's the note from Gabriel Roth on Brooklynvegan.
Here's a web site you can visit if you want to help them out. Authenticity not verified.
Budos Band playing a gig in NYC Thursday I wonder if they'll mention it.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
I <3 you so I'll hit you in the face
The annual Valentine's Day Pillow Fight happened this weekend in San Francisco!! At 6pm at Justin Herman Plaza, people let loose on their loves...and total strangers. AMAZING. Click on the link above for the "official" video.
The New York City Pillow Fight will take place April 4. Mark your calendars now, it's being hosted by Newmindspace.
I will obviously update with the official location as the date gets closer. Who would miss a massive free pillow fight?!
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at Nokia Theater 2/13
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings played new music and old favorites on night one of a two night set at the Nokia Theater in NYC. It was brilliant, as usual.
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear played a small acoustic set Saturday night (Valentine's Day) as part of the New Yorker Speak Easy series at Powerhouse Books in DUMBO. Music critic Sashe Frere Jones was on hand to introduce the band and I took full opportunity to meet him after the show - he was very pleasant.
Jefferey Eugenides read a short story from a recent collection he edited about love and actor Gabriel Byrne recounted his own story of a missed connection. Brilliant evening of literature, movies and music.
Lissy Trullie at Mercury Lounge
Last Wednesday Lissy Trullie took the stage at 11pm at Mercury Lounge for her EP Release. Here's video from the encore Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor." Trullie played another gig in NY for a Fashion Week party a few days later and is headed to SF for her show at the de Young Museum's "Warhol Live" party.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Lenses and Cleanses
I recently spent an afternoon looking through photo magazines at the new Lomography store in the Village. Here's some people I learned about from jpgmag.com.
Clayton Cubitt - New Orleans raised photographer, mixes high art and low culture. He did a whole series of portraits of people after Hurricane Katrina (that's a quick way to my heart!!) Here's a link to his blog with more on that great city.
Loretta Lux - Stockholm photographer - her largest body of work is portraits of pale children with piercing eyes.
Tadao Ando - Japanese architect
Egon Schiele - Knew about him from Prague art class.
Lis Bokt - photographer
Colin Prior Beautiful landscape photography
Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys - belgian artist. New Babylon.
Gangs and Photos
Ross Kemp on Gangs: Sky One television presents Ross Kemp, an actor from the British series "The Eastenders" does documentary style pieces on gangs around the world including the Numbers gang in a maximum security prison in Cape Town, South Africa. He also examines gangs in Brazil, Columbia, Poland and American cities LA and St. Louis.
Documentary about photographer Nan Goldin. The bisexual artist lived in Boston and New York, battled drug addiction, had a sister who committed suicide at 18, and was an early photographer of drag queens.
Lissy Trullie
Sasha Frere Jones recently mentioned this breakout artist will play at a benefit Feb. 21 to celebrate the "Warhol Live" exhibit at the de Young museum in San Francisco. Then I see she will have her record release party on Wednesday night at the Mercury Lounge in NYC.
People have written she sounds like softer Velvet Underground with dancey new wave beats.
Love her cover of Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor"
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
That's Hilarious
Demetri Martin's new comedy central show "Important Things" airs February 11. I love this guy.
Mish Mosh
Mishmosh of music I'm listening to right now: From hip hop to electronica to soul and funk from the 70s.
Odean Pope: Jazz Saxophonist
Loungey beats.
Songs:
Ain't It Baby, Part 1.
Who do you love
I'm gonna make you love me (Dee Dee Warwick)
Only the Strong Survive
Hey, Western Union Man
You'll never find another love like mine
Let's Clean Up the Ghetto
Cowboys to Girls
Get Yo Sound Fixed
Teddy Pendergrass : 1970s Funk and soul YUM YUM. Think Luther Vandross or Barry White.
Stars Like Fleas:Large Brooklyn band making indie rock, at times lovely and slightly discordant. Headed to SXSW in March.
Crystal Stilts: Garage rock, post punk. Think Iggy Pop.
Cut Copy Ohh me likes! Very catchy pop. I could see these songs in Juno-esque movie soundtracks.
Antony and the Johnsons - Experimental folk rock. Reminds me a little of a mix of Leonard Cohen and Elliot Smith.
Animal Collective
Sigur Ros
Silje Nes: From Norway! Folksy tunes, could see drawing large crowds of hipsters at any festival. Goes perfect with a bottle of red wine in Winter. A favorite "Bright Night Morning"
Red Krayola: "progressive" indie rock. I like the lead singer's voice. (Reminds me of The Hold Steady) Like the song "when she went swimming."
Lonely Dear: Folk, jazz. From Sweden. Great beats to listen to on the LIRR or subway. Good train and traveling music.
Palms
Andrew Bird
Sic Alps
Indian Jewelry
Franz Ferdinand
MGMT
No Age
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Loren Connors
Black Angels
Gas
Beach House
Abe Vigoda
Bell
Born Ruffians
The Breeders
Death Vessel
Lia Ices
Fennesz
Lindstom
Marnie Stern
Valet
J Spaceman
Sun City Girls
Twi the Humble Feather
High Places
Deerhunter
Love is All
The Muslims
Gang Gang Dance
Arthur Russell: experimental, disco, pop
Free Blood Soul, electronic,experimental, pop. WOW love it. Feel like the live show would be amazing.
*** Update from Time Out NY article: Free Blood is John Pugh (who used to be the drummer for !!! and Madeline Davy. Their debut album is called " The Singles" and it was released jointly by the Rong and DFA. Features "Never hear surf music again," "Grumpy" "Quick and Painful" and "Parangatang"
Sven Van Thom Haha German pop, folk, acoustic is how his myspace page describes Thom. But it's German so there's an obvious electronic sound to it (and random yelling) too. Anyone sprechen de german?"Back to the Well" tour.
Sophia and Dear Reader
The God Machine
Frida Hyvonen: Swedish singer's album "Silence is Wild" gets good reviews on Pitchfork Media. Her songs are called dark and sexy and beautiful.
O'Death: Folk/Metal (cause that goes together)Makes me want to drink whiskey and jump around. Definitely like some of the fiddle.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Black History Month
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem is part of New York Public Library system at:
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
Tons of Events to celebrate and honor Black History Month including Thursday February 26 "Writers on the Cutting Edge" featuring Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez.
Junot Diaz (Pulitzer Prize winner for "Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and Rita Dove speak as part of same series on March 19, 2009.
FANcakes
February is not only Black History Month but it's Pancake Month too.
The Clinton Street Baking Company ( On Clinton St. between Houston and Stanton) voted best pancakes by NY Magazine will feature different flavored pancakes every few days all month long.
YUM YUM YUM. Highlights include poached pear with pecan streusal and warm maple caramel and fresh coconut pancaked with pineapple and macadamia nuts.
Snow Snow Snow
Redbull sponsored event Winter Jam 2009 building a snowboarding ramp on the Lower East Side for an event this weekend February 5-7.
Thursday February 5 is the professional snowboarding competition "Big Air in the Big Apple" while Saturday the 7th promises fun for everyone including food, music, jumps and snowmen. Best part about the whole event: It's free!!! (Second Best Thing: It takes place in a public park!)
WOW! Expect pro snowboarders, an ice climbing wall and snow flume for sledding.
This reminds me of Icer Air in SF where they import snow on a very steep hill and let snowboarders have their way. HURRAH for NYC following suit.
Click Here for Amazing map to get to the East River Park for the event from the Department of Parks and Recreation.
These dogs must be tired
The idiotarod in San Francisco meant people dressed as dogs and raced down hills, stopping at bars to imbibe, with shopping carts, scooters and anything else to get them to the finish line. Flashmobs of crazy people gathering at last minute undisclosed locations- improv everywhere style.
Well it may have been banned in SF for a while but the NYC one just happened on Saturday 1/31/2009.
Check out the date for the link to the official site for Carts of Brooklyn. And here's some video!!!
Teams of five racing for money across NYC dressed as dogs, horses and more. AWESOME.
Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens was the scheduled starting point. A woman i met in Red Hook Saturday night said it was changed at the last minute to throw off cops and others.
And here are links from the Carts website. Some new music and more:
Upcoming February Music
February 6 and 7: Beirut at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Also a treat that sold out.
February 14: Grizzly Bear and a slew of NY intellectuals and music afficionados pack the new Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn for the New Yorker Speakeasy "Love is Strange" series. My favorite music critic Sasha Frere Jones will be there. The evening is hosted by the New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman.
Apes and Androids show at Music Hall of Williamsburg 1/20/09
The Phenomenal Hand Clap Band opened.
The Apes and Androids came on with confetti flying into the air. The newly renovated venue was packed but the show wasn't sold out. Here is video from the colorful encore. What a fun live show.
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